TELEGRAM TO I. I. VATSETIS

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UrgentTop priority15. XI. 1918

Commander-in-ChiefVatsetisSerpukhovCopy to Trotsky

Irequest you to decide in favour of the plan of the
Central Bureau of the occupied
countries[1]for forming Polish
and Lithuanian shock battalions, in particular a Western
brigade on the Southern Front. I am reminding Trotsky
of our decision.

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]Thisrefers to the Central Bureau of Communist Organisations
in the occupied regions.—Ed.